Communication Studies A100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Relational Dialectics, The Dilemma, Collective Ownership

• School: Orange Coast College
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: Communication Studies A100
• Professor: Breit

Document Summary

Co-dependency each person is fulfilling and sustaining the need of the other. How is the communication of family members preventing the behavior (interdependence) How are the boundaries within families disrupted after a divorce. Family members" stress and ways of coping are inter-related affecting one another. Ex: you can catch others stress levels; just as you can a cold. Hard to assess the constructive/destructive nature of conflict without. Your conflict patterns are directly tied to your partner/family examining it relationally or communicatively members" styles or patterns. Contradictions are an inherent aspect of any relationship: cause relationship change and keep relationships growing instead of static. Suggests that these contradictions are a normal part of relational life. Not a sign of dysfunction or unhealthy relationships. All relationships come with a set of contradictions and opposite forces. Refers to the idea that in all relationships, we individuals and relationship itself crave predictability (security, stability, dependability)